Luis Valdez, also know as the father of chicano theatre, was not only a major influence in Chicano theatre, but in Hispanic theatre in general. Inspired in part by the Civil Rights movement of the Black community, the Farmer Workers movement emerge to give basic rights of employment for the majority hispanic farmers in California. Teatro Campesino was known as the "cultural arm" of the movement and revitalized the dying Hispanic theatre. Valdez pioneered a new aesthetic that other chicano theatre companies quickly copied, called actos. He also broke away from the previous biblical themes of Hispanic theatre and focus on the social justice of the area, his theatre was also not exclusively in Spanish which demonstrates his urge to reach a wide audience. This dream was achieved as his play Zoot Suit was the first chicano play to show on Broadway. The influence of Valdez can be seen in more modern works that we have read like Real Women Have Curves or on that we didn't read like West Side Story. Both of these while not chicano theatre show markers of Valdez's pioneering, like the mixing of Spanish and English and the focus on social issues that reflect the community.